. Diseases of the heart and arterial system; Designed to be a practical presentation of the subject for the use of students and practitioners of medicine. Ebsteins Palpatory Percussion. 12 DISEASES OF THE HEART. Method of Pali-atouyPekclssion. each other. Ebstein dechires also that by his method one canobtain satisfactory results in .cases of emphysema and in personswith a thick ])annic\ihis of fat or large mammary glands, all of which nsually preclude accu-rate percussion after the ordi-nary .method. Robert Maguire, of Eng-land, advocates palpator}^ per-cussion by tapping lightly w
. Diseases of the heart and arterial system; Designed to be a practical presentation of the subject for the use of students and practitioners of medicine. Ebsteins Palpatory Percussion. 12 DISEASES OF THE HEART. Method of Pali-atouyPekclssion. each other. Ebstein dechires also that by his method one canobtain satisfactory results in .cases of emphysema and in personswith a thick ])annic\ihis of fat or large mammary glands, all of which nsually preclude accu-rate percussion after the ordi-nary .method. Robert Maguire, of Eng-land, advocates palpator}^ per-cussion by tapping lightly withthe soft palmar cushion of theterminal phalanx of one finger,and claims equally accurate re-sults (Fig. S). lie expresslystates that the stroke must benot short and quick, but longand ])ressing, as if one werefeeling or palpating with thefinger. It is applicable, hesays, not only to all solid or-gans, spleen and kidneys, aswell as heart and liver, but also to collections of fluid in thoracicand peritoneal cavities. In cases which are at all obscure it is well to verify the con-clusions derived by any one method—plessimetric, auscultatory, orpalpatory—by each of the others. For my part I value the
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